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Example sentences for "carrying away"

  • We drifted fairly into the Loriotte, her larboard bow into our starboard quarter, carrying away a part of our starboard quarter railing, and breaking off her larboard bumpkin, and one or two stanchions above the deck.

  • Her jib-boom passed between our fore and main masts, carrying away some of our rigging, and breaking down the rail.

  • But the shark at last got off, carrying away a hook and line, and not a few severe bruises.

  • Her jib-boom ran between our fore and main masts, carrying away some of our rigging, and breaking down the rail.

  • The inscription also speaks, in this place, of sending or carrying away to Assyria, but it is in such a mutilated condition that more accurate knowledge is impossible.

  • Ascalon herself appears to have opened her gates while Zidka escaped, for the inscription only mentions the carrying away of his wife, his sons and daughters.

  • A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.

  • Defn: The act of taking or carrying away; removal.

  • The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.

  • The act of taking or carrying away; removal.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carrying away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural land; ancient glass; back and; carrying away; carrying capacity; carrying the; clarified butter; could hold; country road; dark background; describing the; early start; full grown; got any; lower back; make discoveries; met the; not all; right guard; sweet bird; theoretical knowledge; travel over; who never; why shouldn